Hello,

I have encountered a bug where darcs 2.0.2 writes out an incorrect  
inventory when undoing changes or performing darcs optimize in a  
repository checked out with darcs get --partial. This seems to happen  
only when multiple checkpoints are present. In particular, the  
inventory written out after these operations lists *all* patches of  
the repository rather than only the patches since the checkpoint.  
This may lead to problems with future commands and darcs check.

The test script attached below reproduces the problem. In this case  
it was necessary to introduce three check points, but I have observed  
the issue in a real world repository with only two checkpoints, too.

Regards
Wolfgang

Attachments

• bug.sh

Assigning to myself to reproduce.  Thanks for the test script!

Please feel free to submit it as a patch (we have a bugs/ directory for
currently known reproducible bugs).

Also, is this a regression from darcs 1.0.9 to your knowledge?

Eric Kow wrote:

> Eric Kow <eric.kow@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> Assigning to myself to reproduce.  Thanks for the test script!
>
> Please feel free to submit it as a patch (we have a bugs/ directory  
> for
> currently known reproducible bugs).
>
> Also, is this a regression from darcs 1.0.9 to your knowledge?

Definitely not, the test script works fine with 1.0.9 and I never had  
problems with partial repositories before darcs2

Hi,

I'm sorry, but I just got confused by that response!  You said that it was
working fine with darcs 1.0.9 and now is no longer working with darcs 2, so that
*is* a regression, right?  Thanks!

Eric Kow wrote:

> Eric Kow <eric.kow@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry, but I just got confused by that response!  You said that  
> it was
> working fine with darcs 1.0.9 and now is no longer working with  
> darcs 2, so that
> *is* a regression, right?  Thanks!

Blush. Of course it is a regression.
Don't know how I managed to write anything different ...

I've submitted your test case to the repository.  Sorry for the delay!

I can confirm that this still fails with darcs 2.3.
The test issue944_partial_inventory is in the repo, so all we need is a diagnosis.
The fact that this is a regression from darcs 1 should be a pretty big clue.

As darcs no longer writes in old-fashioned repositories, the issue is 
"wont-fix".